Deano

by Dean Windass

Dean Windass is one of the real characters of British football. His exploits, on and off the field, are legendary. Here, he reveals what it is really like to be a professional footballer in the modern the training, the big games and life away from the pitch.

Genres: Football

230 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Georgina Allen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book in the winter of 2020 while I had jury duty at Croydon county court. It was the only book on the shelf in the court waiting room that wasn’t wrinkled or heavily soiled. Although touched by some passages, I was underwhelmed. But this was during deepest darkest Covid, and I was a juror on a nasty sex crime case, and reading chapters of this provided some levity and respite during a quite grim episode of my life. I would not read this again.

[mrs lisa middleton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic read from a down to earth guy who fulfilled his dream

[Ashley Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

No one is ever going to say that Dean Windass is the greatest player ever to grace a football pitch, but he sure as hell is one of the game's characters.

It's great to read a football book from someone who has gone up from the lower leagues to the dizzy heights of the premier league, you get more of an insight of the game from books like this than you do from the books of the 'bigger names'.

While there are fun anecdotes of Windass' time at a local factory and a good story about him being knackered out by marking Thierry Henry, only to see Overmars come on for Henry - one of the few Arsenal men faster than Henry!

There are also honest accounts of Windass' own struggles with alcohol and depression, something which seems to be a key theme among professional footballers.